Senior Data Engineer — ETL, Data Quality & ML Pipelines

Fortra; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortra is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the design, development, and operation of reliable data pipelines and reusable datasets supporting Fortra’s cybersecurity and ML products. Embedded within the Data Science team, you will turn diverse source data into documented, versioned, and quality-controlled datasets for experimentation, evaluation, and production workflows.

Working with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Product Managers, you will lead data engineering design, improve pipeline

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data or software engineering with production data pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL with well-tested, documented code.
• Experience with AWS services and databases (S3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Designing reliable ETL pipelines handling large heterogeneous data.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD workflows.
• Understanding data security, access controls, and governance.
• Ability to collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and PMs.
• Experience with ML datasets, feature engineering and knowledge graphs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead highly complex data engineering projects with extensive latitude for independent judgment.
• Own dataset management: schemas, data dictionaries, provenance, lineage, versioning.
• Own all ETL: ingestion, retries, backfills, recovery from partial failures.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues with automated checks.
• Implement monitoring, testing, and CI/CD with ML engineers for reliability.
• Collaborate with data scientists to assemble datasets and develop ML pipelines.
• Engineer ontologies for KG applications and expand product taxonomies.
• Ensure data compliance and governance per regulatory standards.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines design

Data modeling

Data governance

Cloud AWS

Security/compliance

Education

Advanced degree in data engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

ArgoCD

MLflow

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Git

Job description

Fortra is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the design, development, and operation of reliable data pipelines and reusable datasets supporting Fortra’s cybersecurity and ML products. Embedded within the Data Science team, you will turn diverse source data into documented, versioned, and quality-controlled datasets for experimentation, evaluation, and production workflows.

Working with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Product Managers, you will lead data engineering design, improve pipeline